DESCRIPTION
The vm_map_inherit function sets the inheritance flags for the range start to end within the target map to the value new_inheritance. The new_inheritance flag must have one of the values VM_INHERIT_NONE, VM_INHERIT_COPY, or VM_INHERIT_SHARE. This affects how the map will be shared with child maps when the associated process forks.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The vm_map_inherit function obtains a lock on the map using vm_map_lock(9) for the duration of the function.
RETURN VALUES
The vm_map_inherit function returns KERN_SUCCESS if the inheritance flags could be set. Otherwise, if the provided flags were invalid, KERN_INVALID_ARGUMENT will be returned.
SEE ALSO
fork(2)
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